Explore a remarkable collection of artworks that span the centuries and discover how it was assembled over seven decades.

The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond celebrates a significant recent bequest to the Harvard Art Museums from passionate collectors Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon. The exhibition spotlights over 135 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by some of the most significant artists from the Renaissance to the 20th century, and offers visitors an intimate view into the highly personal yet inherently collaborative nature of art collecting.

The artists featured span six centuries and include virtuoso printmakers, from the pioneers of engraving such as Hans Sebald Beham, Martin Schongauer, and Albrecht Dürer to inventive painter-etchers like Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; provocateurs of 19th-century painting such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne; groundbreaking sculptors like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Henry Moore, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, David Smith, and Anthony Caro; trailblazers of abstraction like Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons; and stalwart Boston artists Marjorie Minkin and Peter Lipsitt.

An accompanying print catalogue highlights works in the Solomon Collection with entries written by curators, former and current postdoctoral fellows, and Harvard faculty and graduate students. The volume also includes a history of the couple’s lifelong engagement with art and the dealers, professors, and curators who helped inform their collecting.